If you are interested in hunting Arizona the application period is now open for deer and a few of the other fall hunts. The application period runs until June 14 and needs to be done through the US mail and in their hands by that date. Postmarks do not count. Also for those that don't know you need to buy a general hunting license for $151.25 to enter the draw.

We have been heading to Arizona for 18 years now chasing the javelina. For us it started just as a way to get out of the cold here in Colorado but it has turned into an annual fun hunt. The one nice thing is that with the javelina tag you need the hunting license so that helps out on the other draws and then if you draw a tag the hunting license isn't that bad with at least two tags in hand. Now if I could just draw a deer or antelope tag that would be a big plus for me.

The only animals in Arizona that interest me at this time are coues deer and the javelina. I should have made plans for the javelina next year and then put in for the deer to at least gotten a point but I've extended to far for everything and just can't justify the 151 for a license I won't get to use with everything else I've got going on.

I may plan better next year and try to get into an annual javelina hunt like you do while I'm building points for a high quality deer hunt. I'm not even sure what it takes to get a good coues tag or what the better areas are but after my whitetail hunt this year again I'm going to turn my focus in that direction and learn all I can about them. I've hunted Arizona twice and wish I'd had the foresight to apply for the deer when I had the general license then.

The only animals in Arizona that interest me at this time are coues deer and the javelina. I should have made plans for the javelina next year and then put in for the deer to at least gotten a point but I've extended to far for everything and just can't justify the 151 for a license I won't get to use with everything else I've got going on.

I may plan better next year and try to get into an annual javelina hunt like you do while I'm building points for a high quality deer hunt. I'm not even sure what it takes to get a good coues tag or what the better areas are but after my whitetail hunt this year again I'm going to turn my focus in that direction and learn all I can about them. I've hunted Arizona twice and wish I'd had the foresight to apply for the deer when I had the general license then.

Elk have been killed close to roads where they could be loaded whole into the bed of a pickup. But it doesn't happen often and I'm not sure that is the experience that I long for. The type of elk hunting that I prefer requires rigorous physical exertion that can cripple someone who is not in shape. Being a college hockey player I have to be in at least fair physical condition most of the year but when one of my buddies got back from the Navy Seals he changed the way I think about physical...